GYC WEST 2019: Let These Stand

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GYC West

Diane Burnett

History and Heroes - Those That Stand: Part 3

So, I'm going to put it in a little graphic here, God's order of authority.

So throughout all of creation, all of the way that God works follows a certain pattern of authority.

So we have God the highest power and he is over man.

And then in, or you know, the angels, so throughout all of creation.

But it's his created under God the creator.

And then on earth, God said to man to have dominion over all of the creation.

So it's higher power over lower power always.

In the Garden of Eden, what was the pattern of authority between humans?

You had Adam and Eve, what was their pattern of authority?

They had their different ways of expressing things, but they were equal in authority.

Like, wasn't that so that he had, like, authority over her?

They were equal in authority because they were on the same page.

There was not a sin which is the root of pride, so there's always going to be contest for my opinion is going to rule.

Under the man's authority as far as the deciding factors and not to be lorded over or trompled over, but just the way God protects us.

Under the husband, the wife, the children.

Okay, What is Satan's plan for authority?

So originally in heaven, Lucifer abided under the highest.

And then the mystery of iniquity occurred in his heart and he decided that he would put his throne above the stars.

You take the lower power and it becomes the higher power, the highest power.

So whenever you disrupt God's pattern of higher power over lower power and put the lower power over the higher power, it is sin.

Do you remember the story in 1 Samuel chapter 8 when the Israelites decided as they looked around at all the other kingdoms and they saw the majesty of kings, and they decided they wanted to be like the other nations, and they went to Samuel and said, went to Samuel and said, we want a king.

And Samuel was so upset and he went to God and God said, don't be upset.

They're not rejecting you, they're rejecting me.

Give them what they want, but before you do, what did he say to tell them?

If you take a man who is really the lower power and Give him the kingly power, here's what's going to happen.

He's going to take all your land, he's going to take all the yield from that land, he's going to take your children, he'll take the boys to be part of his Army, he'll take the girls to work in his house.

We live in an age where we can understand what goes on in the brain more than we could even 50 years ago.

They actually have done studies where they take people, men and women, people that are of a more retreated personality, not naturally dominating and choleric, but soft-spoken and kind of timid, And they have put them in a position of leadership, authority.

And over a period of time, Do you know what happens to their personality?

They literally become dictatorial, tyrants.

And they can see what happens in the brain.

And they have even discovered the hormone that causes it.

God specifically gave men more testosterone.

Women have testosterone too, but men have more because they need bigger muscles.

They're our protectors and they're to do the stronger work And they are to not be so emotionally run as women are.

Estrogen makes you a little more emotional.

And when estrogen is out of control, what happens to women?

But the same thing happens to men and women.

He was going in that pattern, You know, but then he learned humility and his sin and the humbleness from that broke him.

But as you look through the children of Israel and through their history, how many kings can you name that did not become dictatorial?

Probably less than 1 hand, definitely less than 2 hands.

So this idea of putting the lower power, even if it's a man over man, definitely changes the character in the opposite direction of what God wants.

So when we look at God's design for humans, and particularly what we're looking at in the brain, we see that it follows this pattern.

He gave us the frontal lobe, which is the higher power, where the intellect, the laws, The facts that come into your life are the ruling power.

So that's why it's really important what you accept as being your moral guide.

You know, in AA, they cannot say that you need God as a higher power.

So they'll just say you need a higher power.

My neighbor that I told you the story about that was a recovering alcoholic, he said, Diane, you can be my higher power.

But when you do not put God in position of higher power, our nature is always to seek for someone to worship and to take care of us.

So we want God's law to subdue our feelings, our emotions, our animal drives, which are eating, our hunger, mating, our thirst, our need for protection, our need to avoid pain, we need all those drives in us to survive to be under the law of God.

And as you remember I told you yesterday, The frontal lobe is your consciousness.

It is the active brain waves, the beta waves.

You're not aware of what your subconscious is bringing in, but it is taking in everything that your senses are bringing in.

When you're driving down a freeway or a city and there's billboards and there's things going on, your consciousness might not even see a sign that you passed and read all the words on it, but your subconscious does.

So let me tell you a few more facts about the subconscious, and then we're going to talk about how Adam and Eve fell.

The subconscious does not judge what it's told.

So whether you're a child or whether you're an adult, what you see on television is taken into your brain, your subconscious as fact.

Do you know why politicians slander 1 another even though they could be thrown in jail for it?

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